Technology and the Future of Education, Learning and Knowledge

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Not Dystopian

Today, let s look backwards from the Future

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THE CONCEPT BEHIND TWITTER:)

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You aint seen nothing yet!

TECHNOLOGY
EDUCATION

Huge opportunity threat

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A big challenge for universities: the framework is changing

Technology changes how we perceive the world

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If you measure the wrong thing you do the wrong thing: GDP & GPA

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Many digital natives will start to dene and shape their own degrees

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Education may just become like this shoe

CUSTOMIZATION

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BRAND BECOMES CRUCIAL

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The future is already here!

Everything: Connected Intelligent Real-time Personalized Cross-platform

ONLY THE BEGINNING

Everything is converging

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SCREENIFICATION

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5 Billion...soon

A Kodak Moment for Universities?

not really BUT.

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The Digital Default is near

Exponential growth of technology

1 2 4 8 16 32 64

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...

Now, many things will happen a lot quicker than we think!

The other 3 Billion are coming online: knowledge revolution

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! Dramatic impact on Education !

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The education sector has a lot in common with the music, media & content business

Cable & Sat

Broadcast

Cloud SoLoMo

Locked

Loose

Liquid
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following music industry, publishing, newspapers

Digitization and Virtualization of Education:

UNIVERSITY AS USUAL IS THE PAST

BUSINESS AS USUAL IS DEAD

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E-M-P-O-W-E-R-M-E-N-T

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A common feeling these days

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The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence, itself, but to act with yesterdays logic

*Peter Drucker

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Discover, co-create, imagine tomorrows logic

Discover, co-create, imagine tomorrows logic

The Future is no longer a zero-sum game

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http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2012/05/inventing-our-next-great-scarcities/

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence, itself, but to act with yesterdays logic
*Peter Drucker

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As educational content becomes abundant, experience is the new scarcity

Abundance

Scarcity

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Mobile devices have already become our external brains

Next: new extensions of man that change us

Search engines wont wait for you to ask for information.!They will know you like a friend, aware of your concerns and interests at a detailed level
Ray Kurzweil

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Automated. Intelligent. Everything.

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The stuff of science ctionno longer

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The coming Global Brain is a huge opportunity for universities

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GLOBAL PARADIGM SHIFT

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Equal access to digital resources will become a human right

Interdependence is inevitable

Business Technology Politics Culture Europe EDUCATION

Information Tsunami

Overload Everywhere

Learning: from copy & paste & memorize and downloads to ows, from ownership to access

The rise of OTT education and learning platforms will dramatically accelerate hyper-fragmentation, resulting in masses of niches and nichehits, hyper-globalization - and very fast-changing windows of monetisation

Education, Learning, Training:

dramatically increasing fragmentation, unbundling, splintering, personalisation

The future is already here!

Many nicely walled gardens will probably not be sustainable

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THE FUTURE ISNT EITHER/OR

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Its not an either/or world - its an and world

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New Content Interface Technologies & Screenication: were only at the very beginning!

Human-only tasks on-top of big data, smart machines, AI

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Video Source: IBM Future Scenarios, Youtube

Knowledge 2.0: Wisdom. Learnings. Relevance. Depth.

http://pinterest.com/pin/197876977350036245/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_Pyramid

Knowledge is not merely about information, data, facts and numbers....

Learn wisdom...?

http://conniecrosby.blogspot.it/2013/01/david-weinberger-on-nature-of-knowledge.html

BUT IS THIS THE LEARNING WE NEED?

The appeal of amazing free stuff paid largely with attention & personal data is mostly (but not entirely) temporary:

If you dont pay you are the content

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Formal Authority

Peer Networked Self-made Earned-

Authority

Creativity is the residue of time wasted A. Einstein

1957 PaleoFutures.com

London wax museum 2007

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Thanks for your attention!

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